Imagine this, a student walk into their English class with an attitude committed to finishing their essay. Their teacher walks to the front of the class and tells the student today you will be taking the I-ready. She says that anybody that hasn’t finished their essay has to do it as homework. The student sighs in disappointment knowing that they will spend the next hour and a half working on a test that won’t get graded and has no impact on their future career. This is the average reaction for the students at Rocky.
3 times a year every student at Rocky is required to take the I-Ready diagnostic test. But why? Why do students at rocky have to take these tests? Often teachers will tell you they are used for seeing where their students are. But don’t they have full access to our grades? Especially because the English tests are taken in English class. The same goes for math.
Rocky Mountain student Cole Jensen was asked what he thought about the tests. He said, “The I-Ready tests are just a waste of time, my teachers can just look at my grades and see I’m fine.”
Another student Lucas Ebright was asked if he thinks there are any positives to taking them and he responded with, “I think that the tests could have benefit at the beginning of the year, but after that I don’t see the need to continue taking them.”
Liam Sawyer was asked the same question. “I agree with Lucas, there is purpose for taking it at the beginning of the year, but once my teacher gets to know me and can see my progress in class, I should not have to take it two more times.”
All in all, the actual lessons the teachers teach are way more important and the I-Ready test is a waste of time to take more than once a year.
